importing modules from subdirs

[Alex Hall]

Halfway there. It imports now, but it says that the module does not
have functions which I know it does have. I will just leave it all in
one folder for now and play with organization after I get the project
working better.

On 3/11/10, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Alex Hall wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> The manual says, for modules in a project stored in subdirectories, you
>> can do:
>> import folderName.module
>>
>> I have a couple questions, though:
>> 1. Do I then have to call functions from module like
>> folder.module.function, or can I still use the normal module.function?
>>
>> 2. When I try to do this, it fails. I have an sw folder. Inside that I
>> have a modes folder, holding weather.pyw. Main.pyw, back in the sw
>> folder, is trying to import modes.weather, but nothing happens. I have
>> tried putting weather.pyw in its own weather folder under the modes
>> folder, but that also fails. I have placed an empty __init__.py file
>> in both the modes folder and the weather subfolder, but I cannot get
>> main.pyw to import weather!
>>
>> 3. How does weather import from a folder above or beside it? For
>> example, if a config directory is at the same level as the modes
>> directory, how can weather import something from config?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> I haven't checked this, but I believe .pyw names are only for main
> programs. Try renaming weather.pyw as weather.py and see if it makes any
> difference.
>
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>  Steve
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